In the weeks leading up to the launch of the health insurance exchange exchanges as part of Obamacare’s health insurance goals, Aetna (NYSE: AET) has dropped out of the exchanges in a handful of states. In most cases these exchanges have been in states where the...
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Health Net Appoints Administrator for New Arizona Medicaid Subsidiary
Health Net, Inc. today announced the appointment of Mike Klimansky as administrator of Health Net Access, Inc., the company’s new subsidiary providing Medicaid benefits to Maricopa County, Ariz. residents. Klimansky’s career in health plan and health care...
Ad battle rages between health care giants UPMC, Highmark
It's business as usual in the public battle between UPMC and Highmark two weeks after state officials told the health giants to tone down their advertising and issue a joint statement addressing concerns of seniors. The biting television commercials continue to...
NCTracks Continues to Devastate Medical Businesses
During the final week of August, Jordan Karimi was spending his days cleaning up the office, making final phone calls and saying goodbye to co-workers. Karimi, 28, had worked for his parents for the past five years. Their company, Right at Home, had provided home...
West Virgina Health Insurance Exchange will have only 1 Company
Only one company will participate in West Virginia's new individual health insurance marketplace. Media outlets report that Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and Carelink/Coventry applied and were accepted to participate in the individual marketplace. But...
Aetna bows out of New Jersey health insurance exchange
With less than two weeks until government-run insurance exchanges are required to go live, a large carrier has decided not to be part of another state online marketplace. Aetna, which has pulled out of a number of state health exchanges along the East Coast, announced...
Cigna integrates MyFitnessPal into coaching program
MyFitnessPal announced a partnership with health insurance company Cigna, which will combine MyFitnessPal’s nutrition, physical activity and weight management resource with Cigna’s health coaching programs. The offering will give customers the option to connect their...
Pennsylvania proposes alternative to expansion of Medicaid
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett unveiled a plan on Monday to use federal subsidies targeted for an expansion of Medicaid to be used instead to help low-income residents of the state buy private health insurance. Corbett, a Republican who has been opposed to...
MedPAC Contemplates Link Between ACOs and Medigap Plans
Medicare might want to create a supplemental coverage plan that encourages patients to seek care in a single accountable care organization (ACO), the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) was told Thursday. A "Medicare Select ACO supplemental plan" would...
Newly eligible Kentucky Medicaid members can choose from Anthem, Humana or Passport
The state has signed contracts with three Medicaid managed care companies to serve Kentuckians who will be newly eligible for Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act, officials said Friday. Starting Oct. 1, people in 104 Kentucky counties who are newly eligible...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and Memorial Hermann Health System Announce Alliance
New ACO Arrangement realigns focus to value of service with emphasis on improving health outcomes Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) and Memorial Hermann Accountable Care Organization (MHACO) announced a new strategic alliance today that will deliver...
Anthem health plan draws praise, criticism
Central Maine Healthcare employees, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield leaders and others spent hours Monday trying to sway the head of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Anthem’s plan to move thousands of individual policyholders into a plan that strictly limits their...